Wissenschafter

It is different this time, it's like comparing a hammer to a fucking steam engine.

They aren't arguing against open science, they are trying to educate you on the history of science. It's always been this way.

Also, your third paragraph is highly ironic.

I mean, theology and philosophy could be argued endlessly to be interchangeable, go ask Wittgenstein. He just argues that things that are 'truly argued' with language are philosophy, while things that are bullshit is more or less theology.

I usually stick to the analytical stuff, the continental stuff was pretty traumatizing honestly, reading through Being-and-Time in a couple days on Adderall fried some brain cells and my perception of reality permanently.

I have an undergrad in Philosophy. Our required math classes were formal logic, which we shared with the comp sci. majors. Those classes basically taught me how to program.

I am now a senior engineer at a F500 and I just have a BA in Phil.

It is a highly underrated degree, and going forward with knowledge specialization becoming unnecessary, and eventually unfeasible due to the triviality of AI making it not needed for a human being to study a hyper-niche subject for 4-8 years for a PHD dissertation, it will probably end up being one of the only remaining degrees left.

Academia may be going back to its roots; Philosophy was the first and will be the last academic subject. Once capital accumulation through job training stops being the focus of academics, it can go back to being what it once was. University was never meant to be a training-ground for jobs, it was meant to be a place to seek truth and knowledge.

I literally won a corporate Innovation award last year at my company (that does $30B in revenue yearly) for some of the previous applications I put into production that I mentioned. Even got posted on LinkedIn where thousands of people liked it. I am also in a technical role that is not far removed from the C-Suite, reporting to a VP.

Your analysis couldn't be further from reality, except the ADHD part, lmao.

I have the industry figured out buddy, it's you who thought they did, but doesn't anymore.

You will be gone faster than your head can spin my guy.

Execs will not put up with managers who are not going to use the best tools. I expect soon you will be forced to, or you're out.

Also, I've been writing code for over 20 years. I started programming LUA and ActionScript back in 2000 when I was 10 years old.

Your days are numbered old man.

That explains why you know nothing. Good luck to whoever you manage, I do not envy them.

Would suck to have someone be your manager who refuses to even understand the new tools, much less use them; you will make a GREAT manager.

I'm honestly in disbelief that people in the field can be this purposefully ignorant, and proudly at that.

"Real developers write their own original code and/or architecture plans."

Nice tired no true Scotsman argument. You literally sound like a stubborn boomer refusing to see the change. You sound ignorant, not wise.

I've created several multi-modal AI applications deployed in production; fully created through Codex and Claude code. SOC2 compliant and created in a month, not years.

You can be an old man, but you don't need to have an old man mentality.

You wouldn't hire someone who only knows how to use a typewriter in a world of computers. No big deal, right? "A computer is just 'another tool', why should I not be fine with my typewriter?"

Literally fucking blows my mind I'm even having this discussion on this website, with people who should know better.

Good luck, you will need it.

Yeah, I'm sure I'm the one who doesn't get it, not the guy refusing to use the paradigm changing tools, "because".

You sound like my Grandmother who refused to even look at a computer screen. Literally the same. It's amazing it's coming from so called tech-literate people in the field.

Sad.

I'm a senior at a F200, I'm actually tired of listening to you assholes here. I always thought people here knew more than me; it's not fucking true.

I'm not some starry eyed junior; I have built multi-modal agents being used in production on government contract work in the field, right this second.

You all can go fuck yourselves, you neo-luddites will be the first out the door. Good riddance.

"Or: they actually understand the tech, and see its limitations. Unlike wide-eyed neophytes and zealots."

I'm sure you super qualified rando's on HN know and understand the tech and know its limitations better than the Google engineers actually making the stuff.

Real ripe coming from a guy who can't even refactor a few lines of code correctly with an AI.

I couldn't roll my eyes any harder.

More neo-luddite nonsense.

"I refuse to pick up the magic hammer that nails things in by me just thinking about it while holding it in my hand; nosiree, give me that old fashioned hammer so I can sit here and nail some nails into a 2x4 while the guy using the other tool is building whole slop neighborhoods. Ha, that guy is so dumb and I'm too cool because I won't ever use that hammer."

I don't get it. Proudly saying you don't plan to use better tools is not some 'cool' look or the brag you think it is. You're just making yourself less valuable and being ignorant on purpose.

Cool.